COOPER: Time for tech to confront gender inequality
What women really need leaders in tech to do right now is take principled positions against discrimination. Come out and say that sexism, bro-cultures and pay inequality are not OK.
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LENZI: Good design built on integrating, connecting
In the IoT era, design must address the integration of objects, functions and processes at the systems level along with the creative ability to see connections previously unnoticed, and within a business’s economic and technological constraints. This can be taught.
THOMAS: Life in a divided city
How could people in the divided city of Aleppo, Syria, live such different lives? I couldn’t imagine it—until I considered ways our city is divided.
MUSGRAVE: Giving good firms the boost to be better
I’ll concede that private equity might have a marketing problem. Somewhere along the way, it got a bad rap, which is a shame when you consider the impact private equity has had in Indiana.
CORLEY: Big-picture thinking can get you promoted
I will always remember a quote from my mentor, Ray Brown at Duke University: “You can’t keep your eyes on the hills when your nose is on the grindstone.”
McCABE: The good, bad and ugly of Paris pull-out
What difference will our country’s withdrawal really make? There’s both good news and bad news.
MADDOX: Trump’s greatest legacy will be the courts
Despite amateur hour in the White House, Trump’s greatest legacy will be the conservative men and women he appoints to the federal courts. This is ironic given that, for most of his life, Trump was a Democrat and has acknowledged not having a strong ideological foundation for his political positions.
KENNEDY: Contrasts in leadership
Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett has shown leadership in his handling of the police shooting of an unarmed black man.
SPRINGER: Broad Ripple High should remain a school
Yes, boutiques and coffee shops are wonderful amenities, but schools are often the determining factor for families choosing a home or neighborhood.
OSILI: Older employees are crucial to our workforce
Years of life experience, maturity and age-accumulated wisdom suggest a tech-smart older workforce is greatly beneficial to any community.
EDWARDS: Shovels or ladders?
Some of us are using the ability to personalize our belief systems to shut ourselves off from information and ideas that might challenge those beliefs and cause us to think and act differently.
WESTERHAUS-RENFROW: Company culture: the elephant in the room
Effective communication in the workplace among people from diverse cultures can be especially challenging, especially between a head office located overseas and the regional units in the Indianapolis metro area.
MORRIS: Chicago—full of fun and taxes
Chicago’s official website lists 32 city taxes, including a bag tax that’s led to retailers charging customers to put their merchandise in a sack.
LaPIERRE: HIP 2.0 needs more time to show results
The current debate about health care programs will result in consequential health outcomes for real people.
KENNEDY: McConnell’s travesty
The Senate Republican health care bill rations care and massively increases everyone’s premiums in order to fund $300 billion in tax breaks to the top 2 percent of income earners. It robs the poor and gives to the rich.
OLYMPIDIS: All will lose if fuel standards change
A proposed change to a little-known regulation could actually increase federal overreach, potentially driving up gas prices and creating regulatory chaos for small businesses like Family Express.
MEREDITH: State can’t afford two school systems
There is a continued push for national privatization of our kids’ education through voucher expansion, which takes away already scarce resources from neighborhood public schools.
STUDY-CAMPBELL: Junior League seeks lasting impact
Ninety-five years ago, 10 civic-minded women came together to form the Junior League of Indianapolis.
THOMAS: The water we all swim in
In small towns and disconnected communities, the humanities need the sort of “venture capital” or catalyzing boost that only the government can offer.
MARCUS: Catching up is hard to do
Multinational companies and foreign trade are not evil forces. Rather, states and cities need to recognize the economic perils any community can face almost anytime as private companies make changes.